>>You are right. So, WHY does e-gold let dozens (or maybe HUNDREDS) of >>e-gold accounts used for such scams ?
JMR> There are full time employees who repeatedly balance-limit JMR> such accounts. Criminals are persistent. It's easy to demand JMR> zero crime, but hard to cause it. So WHAT exactly should JMR> e-gold do about this, besides what they're already doing? What I want point is that e-gold has often some strange attitude: Putting balance limits on some accounts where people simply do not WANT to tell about their address for "good reasons", and in the same way, allowing massive scams as long as scammers simply pay for a "true address" anywhere in the world (pay with e-gold :-) Moreover, when a new e-gold account suddenly receives hundreds of payments, from a website that is easily checkable, I think that it is EASY to detect a scam ! And I am sure that e-gold has systems to detect such things on the accounts. So, WHY doesn't e-gold simply lock any account, regarding the nature of the website ? Censorship ? No, simply the right of a commercial company to avoid beeing involvd in scams ! And what I want also show is that there are 2 different attitudes: One regarding e-gold that "has all rights" and one regarding the market-makers that are crucified as soon as they make the same thing than e-gold (allowing scams). >>Moreover, when I see such "services" like e-told, that kindly promote JMR> Here's another issue, should they censor such people. A JMR> disagreement with their economic ideas shouldn't affect a JMR> minority's ability to use e-gold, IMO. Many people I know have JMR> minority views on a variety of economic issues. Why don't you at e-gold put in the "Directory", these wonderful "investment" programs ? because you have some kind of morality :) E-told simply makes his money with advertizing for scams. Moreover, when I read the e-told letter that somebody kindly sends me, when I see e-told redactors writing "This program is strange, the admin stopped replying since 2 weeks"...It makes me think "So, this is a scam, BUT others are not, because the admin still replies"! By allowing some admins to publish their "results" every day before they disappear, e-told is DIRECTLY involved in their scams. JMR> They have none, all they have is a user agreement with the JMR> ability to do certain things, like value-limit accounts to stop JMR> obvious frauds. The characteristics of better money make it JMR> attractive to a wide variety of individuals, including a few JMR> greedy & bad ones. e-gold, as I've repeatedly said, is not a JMR> legal system or a cop, it's just a currency. Expecting these JMR> diverse functions (such as extensive investigation) from a JMR> currency isn't logical (or even desirable, IMO). IMO anyway, I think that people should be adult, and if they loose what they earned bybeeing stupid, well... That's their problem. But so, no difference of treatment should be made between e-gold that "isn't a cop" and market-makers that "aren't cops". And who both make profits from the scammers :-) JMR> What, exactly, would you do to a "scam" like The Gold Casino? The Gold Casino is a scam ? I don't know this Gold Casino, but I guess that it is a ..casino, right ? Casinos are games where people know that they can win and loose. As far as I know, nobody in casino promises only earnings. Morevoer, HYIPS claim to INVEST the money, despite they invest nothing, and use it for their own needs. There is treachery here too. Casinos announce some games, and users have some games. They have what they pay for. JMR> Remember, many of these couch themselves in the terminology of JMR> games, not investing. No, most of them claim to invest in some markets, etc. I don't speak here about lotteries or other GAMES, that are GAMES and are really not scams. Stan Mariman Center www.mariman.net --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
